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Chapter 1. EXT: Search in Tables

Extension Key: my_extension_key

Copyright 2005, Carlos A. Chiari O., <ccho@dimension-e.net>

This document is published under the Open Content License

available from http://www.opencontent.org/opl.shtml

The content of this document is related to TYPO3

- a GNU/GPL CMS/Framework available from www.typo3.com

1.1. Introduction

What does it do?

  • The extension allows your visitors to search in previously defined tables. This extension is intended to overcome the indexed search limitation to search in cached pages. Although many extensions have their own search tool for their type of records, this extension allows the developer to configure a search in many tables at the same time, and how the results should be shown to the visitors, both on the list view and the single item view.

  • The extension provides a plugin that can output the search form, the results list, and the single view for a selected item. It should also be configured via typoscript to send the visitor to a page where the table single view could be already configured, eg: the page where you already have the single news pagecontent element configured.

  • The search algorithm is very simple, and it performs a simple non-boolean search. It uses tslib_pibase standard search capabilities.

  • It is a complex extension, as it requires very good knowledge of typoscript.

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